Bhaskar Chakravorti Biography

Business leaders are naturally students of the big picture; Bhaskar Chakravorti challenges them to think even bigger – and more globally and lead with high “contextual intelligence.” With more than 20 years experience spanning academia consulting industry and high-tech research and development he is an authority on globalization and opportunities created by emerging markets and crises. Renowned for his work on innovation which he “sees as an opportunity for collaboration and mutual benefit among nations rather than a zero sum race against rising economic giants” Chakravorti is Senior Associate Dean of International Business and Finance of the Fletcher School at Tufts University. He is also founding executive director of Tufts’ Institute for Business in the Global Context and its Center for Emerging Markets Enterprises (CEME) a global hub for emerging thinking on emerging markets and serves the Fletcher faculty as a Professor of Practice in International Business and Chair of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Working Group for Tufts T10. A former partner of McKinsey & Company where he led its Innovation and Global Forces practices Chakravorti has advised more than 30 companies in the Fortune 500 policy makers investors and entrepreneurs spanning multiple geographies and industries. He is also organizer of multiple conferences on emerging markets inclusive growth and seeking opportunities in crises.
A Distinguished Scholar at MIT’s Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship Chakravorti served on the faculty at Harvard Business School (HBS) teaching innovation entrepreneurship management and new venture formation. He also co-chaired an immersion program to India and published research on innovations triggered by adversity and crises. His book “The Slow Pace of Fast Change: Bringing Innovations to Market in a Connected World” (HBRP 2003) was selected as one of the Best Business Books of the year by multiple publications and was an Amazon.com best-seller in Innovation and continues to influence business strategy and policy recommendations. He is working on his next book mapping the innovator’s itinerary from Iceland to Novosibirsk.

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